OAKMONT, Pa. — Why would it come easily?
This was, after all, Dustin Johnson.
And it was the pointy end of a golf major.
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Trainwrecks happen when he’s at the wheel at times like these.
The debacles of the past, though, have at least been self-inflicted.
He shot himself in the foot at Whistling Straits to throw away a PGA Championship, shanked a long iron at Royal St. Georges to gift Darren Clarke a Claret Jug, imploded at Pebble Beach with a big lead and, infamously, three-putted to lose the U.